Active energy compression of a laser-plasma electron beam.

ABSTRACT: Radio-frequency (RF) accelerators providing high-quality relativistic electron beams are an important resource enabling many areas of science, as well as industrial and medical applications. Two decades ago, laser-plasma accelerators¹ that support orders of magnitude higher electric fields than those provided by modern RF cavities produced quasi-monoenergetic electron beams for the first time^2-4. Since then, high-brightness electron beams at gigaelectronvolt (GeV) beam energy and competitive beam properties have been demonstrated from only centimetre-long plasmas^5-9, a substantial advantage over the hundreds of metres required by RF-cavity-based accelerators. However, despite the considerable progress, the comparably large energy spread and the fluctuation

SUBMITTER: Winkler P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12018259 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature